But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
ALAN KINGThen, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
More Alan King Quotes
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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